Do your religious beliefs effect HOW you play games?

[Steezie]

This is something Im curious enough to want to know but I dont want to de-rail the other thread.

Do your religious beliefs influence HOW you play certain games?

Like do you favor certain weapons or actions because of your religious beliefs?

Why or why not and most importantly how?

 

[peanutbutter12]

No, why would I? It's a game. It will have no basis or effect on real life and gives me the opportunity to do things in a game that I would otherwise not do in real life.

 

[Sleaker]

Not really, I usually play games like they are a big story (atleast RPGs) so I like to go around and reveal as much of that story as possible, no matter if it takes being 'evil' or 'good'

 

[Raphael45]

Most of the time I don't think of it. Maybe it's my religious beliefs or just my mindset, but unless it's a game where you're like, supposed to be evil, then I tend to be merciful or kind, even to data, pixels in video games and the same in other types of games.

 

[morningstar2651]

No, why would I? It's a game. It will have no basis or effect on real life and gives me the opportunity to do things in a game that I would otherwise not do in real life.

Video games provide us with a psychosocial moratorium - we can experiment with things we would never do in real life without having to fret about real life consequences.

 

[Sketcher]

Yes, they do affect how I play some games.

 

[Whiteshark1075]

Yes, they do affect how I play some games.

So if you were playing KOTOR, you wouldnt allow yourself to ever see the darkside endings?

 

[Sketcher]

So if you were playing KOTOR, you wouldnt allow yourself to ever see the darkside endings?

I probably wouldn't get to that point.

 

[Breetai]

So if you were playing KOTOR, you wouldnt allow yourself to ever see the darkside endings?

I did. It was fun, and it's only a game as far as I'm concerned.

 

[FlaymSior]

So if you were playing KOTOR, you wouldnt allow yourself to ever see the darkside endings?

Only if it was KOTOR 1 because the second sucked horribly.

I just play the game as I normally would. Because it's not about choosing actions I normally wouldn't to me. It's about making decisions as I would in events and occurrences that would never happen. That is the basis of fantasy. What one would do if...
But that's not because of faith but of personal feelings, which are really intertwined, but that's what makes my actions part of my life instead of part of faith.

 

[Victory of the Cross]

I always act as i would in real life, so yes it does effect how i play
doesn't mean i'm weak at it though, I'd love to see anyone try and floor some of my good guys in a melee battle or shootout

and when it comes to RTS.. ya can give up now

Its often harder to do the right thing even in games, ya always get morer rewards for being bad

 

[Victory of the Cross]

compeletd Kotor 40 times on the lightside

 

[ravendta]

To an extent. If there is a choice between doing something good and doing something bad (KOTOR for instance) I'll always choose the good thing. I feel bad otherwise. Guilty, in a way. And I never use cheat codes because I want to play games fairly.

 

[The-Doctor]

I would say no...It is only a game after all. The consequences of following a particular path in a game have no basis in real life so why would I not do things differently in a game.

 

[FlaymSior]

I would say no...It is only a game after all. The consequences of following a particular path in a game have no basis in real life so why would I not do things differently in a game.

I always saw games as a chance to act as you would in situations otherwise closed to you. Then again, if you're going to willingly act the corrupt way because of lack of consequences, perhaps that IS how you would act in real life if the options were presented without consequences.

I wonder if there's a famous philosophical or psychological quote dealing with a world without consequences...

 

[peanutbutter12]

I always saw games as a chance to act as you would in situations otherwise closed to you. Then again, if you're going to willingly act the corrupt way because of lack of consequences, perhaps that IS how you would act in real life if the options were presented without consequences.

I wonder if there's a famous philosophical or psychological quote dealing with a world without consequences...

Which is completely irrelevant because there is no such thing as a world without consequences. To have a world such as that would be a world without God and so there would be no right or wrong other than what we accept morally, and just like in our world today, what we accept as human morality changes through each generation.

I also disagree that it's how I would act in a real world without consequences. I can have a completely different attitude in a game simply because everything is reset with the push of a button. There are no long term effects, nor does my decisions to say, nuke a small country, have any effect on real life beings, where as there would be great emotional pulls in a real world situation where real lives are being weighed. So your theroy on that holds no real weight.

 

[FlaymSior]

Which is completely irrelevant because there is no such thing as a world without consequences. To have a world such as that would be a world without God and so there would be no right or wrong other than what we accept morally, and just like in our world today, what we accept as human morality changes through each generation.

I also disagree that it's how I would act in a real world without consequences. I can have a completely different attitude in a game simply because everything is reset with the push of a button. There are no long term effects, nor does my decisions to say, nuke a small country, have any effect on real life beings, where as there would be great emotional pulls in a real world situation where real lives are being weighed. So your theroy on that holds no real weight.

It's still a real life mind making those decisions willingly, for whatever reason.

 

[ThePosterFormerlyKnownAs]

It doesn't really affect how I play. I mostly play RPGs and when I create a character, I try to work out what type of person he is and play him accordingly. The angle I use is more one of creating a story or fleshing out the story with my character rather than living vicariously through him.

 

[Breetai]

It's still a real life mind making those decisions willingly, for whatever reason.

I'm disagreeing with you.

In Oblivion, for example, I've actually gone into a village and slaughtered the entire population, just because I can. It's just something interesting to do in the game.

But...

Even in a world without consequences, without God, sin and any possible repercussions for our actions, I still wouldn't do something so bad as to murder an innocent person or rape someone. I really don't think I, or most people, would cross the line and do those sort of things.

But in a game... it's possible since we know that these are just computer characters.


Has anyone seen the movie, "Groundhog Day"?

 

[FlaymSior]

I'm disagreeing with you.

In Oblivion, for example, I've actually gone into a village and slaughtered the entire population, just because I can. It's just something interesting to do in the game.

But...

Even in a world without consequences, without God, sin and any possible repercussions for our actions, I still wouldn't do something so bad as to murder an innocent person or rape someone. I really don't think I, or most people, would cross the line and do those sort of things.

But in a game... it's possible since we know that these are just computer characters.


Has anyone seen the movie, "Groundhog Day"?

So it's really just what consequences you're willing to deal with.


Yeah, saw Groundhog Day. Didn't really care for it, really. Was too.... I dunno. Was too something.